The Herald reports: Walkers and cyclists planning a protest crossing of Auckland Harbour Bridge on Sunday morning will find it defended by a new security fence as well as by police. The Transport Agency, which has put up the 1.8m fence this week along the Curran St on-ramp, is also […]
Yearly Archives: 2009
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From the Herald: The question of where buses should stop in a North Shore town centre has taken five years of study and cost ratepayers more than $87,000. And it looks like the site for the Browns Bay bus stops won’t be settled for some time yet following a row […]
Brian Rudman at the Herald: Each time I write in praise of public transport, I end up having to eat my words. On Monday I was lauding the increased patronage figures in Auckland but by 8.15 on Wednesday night, I didn’t care whether I ever saw another commuter bus in […]
The Campaign for Better Transport today launched a campaign to highlight uncertainty surrounding the future of public transport projects in Auckland. Join the campaign here. Launched today at the Mt Albert railway station, the aim of the “Action Stations” campaign is to gain assurance from central Government that funding for […]
The Government has jumped the gun and confirmed the reallocation of $1bn in spending to motorways. The widely opposed change to transport funding over the next three years means that money will be taken from every other category and put on new and improved state highways. We’ll have a statement on […]
Both Brian Rudman and, perhaps surprisingly, Jeremy Sole of the New Zealand Contractors Federation are waking up to the radical changes proposed for changes to national land transport funding. Rudman: As Auckland Regional Transport Authority chairman Mark Ford noted, “to put it simply, where there has been investment, there has […]
Come to the official launch of the Campaign for Better Transport “Action Stations” campaign. When: Wednesday 20th May, 2009, 7:30am Where: Mt Albert Railway Station entrance Who: CBT representatives will introduce the campaign, but this is also your chance to meet the candidates for the upcoming Mt Albert by-election. Action […]
Responding to NZTA CEO Geoff Dangerfield’s fuddy-duddy response to the May 24th protest, Bevan Woodward tells it like it is: It’s not just about the cycleway. I’ve been campaigning for walking and cycling access on the Auckland Harbour Bridge for more than 10 years. During that time the NZ Transport […]